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From: john@caeco.uucp (John Rigby)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x,comp.windows.news,comp.windows.misc
Subject: X vs NeWS and all that
Message-ID: <1988Apr27.083752.17705@caeco.uucp>
Date: 27 Apr 88 14:37:52 GMT
Organization: Caeco, Inc. Midvale, UT.   (Layout. Schem.Cap. Layout Synth. Block.plc.route)
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In a recent "Engineering Tools" (April 88) article about X windows I read
something interesting.  The article was about how X is becoming
a standard.  In the last paragraph of the article I read this:

    ...there are some emerging alternatives -- such as Adobe's Display
    PostScript, which brings the popular PostScript model used in many laser 
    printers to workstation displays -- for X to cope with.  Says Sun
    Microsystems' Bill Joy:  "Wait until people see Steve Jobs' demo of the
    new NeXT workstation, which uses Display PostScript.  It will be a bullet
    in the head of X.

Am I correct in thinking that this Display Postscript is NOT the Display
Postscript extension to X?  Given that it is not, what is it?

Are we going to see an X vs NeWS vs Display Postscript battle?
If Display Postscript becomes popular, could Sun make NeWS compatible
with it?  If anyone has some info on all this, I would like to
hear about it.

John Rigby
CAECO Inc.
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